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Get all users that are followed a particular Twitter user

I would like to get a list of all users a particular user is following. (Using a Python wrapper).
This question is similar to this one. But how do I do the same in Python ?

Your goal can be achieved using the Tweepy library for Python
step 1
Create a twitter developer account here
step 2
Install the tweepy library instructions available here
Example
# import tweepy library
import tweepy
# define your developer keys from https://developer.twitter.com/en
consumer_key='<your consumer_key here>'
consumer_secret='<your consumer_secret here>'
access_token='<your access_token here>'
acess_token_sectret='<your acess_token_sectret here>'
# use those defined keys to login to twitter using tweepy
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
# use tweepy to search for all the accounts that StackOverflow is following (to change which account it searches just change the username)
for user in tweepy.Cursor(api.friends, screen_name="StackOverflow").items():
# Print the username of each user who is following the account
print('following: ' + user.screen_name)
Note
Twitters rate limits for getting the followers of accounts is quite strict. You may need to wait a period of time between searches.

Twitter user_timeline not returning enough tweets

I'm currently using the GET statuses/user_timeline twitter API in python to retrieve tweets, It says in the docs This method can only return up to 3,200 of a user’s most recent Tweets however when i run it, it only returns 100-150.
How do i get it to return more tweets than it is already?
Thanks in advance

You'll have to write code to work with timelines. Twitter's Working with timelines documentation has a discussion of how and why Twitter timelines work the way they do.
Essentially, set your count to the maximum amount (200) and use since_id and max_id to manage reading each page. Alternatively, you can use an existing library to make the task much easier. Here's an example, using the tweepy library.
consumer_key = "<your consumer_key>"
consumer_secret = "<your consumer_secret>"
access_token = "<your access_token>"
access_token_secret = "<your access_token_secret>"
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
for status in tweepy.Cursor(api.user_timeline, "JoeMayo").items():
print('status_id: {}, text: {}'.format(status.id, status.text.encode('utf-8')))

Why tweepy cannot retrieve media data of some tweets?

I'm using tweepy to develop the program that retrieves media urls and download them. While testing some tweets, I found something weird. So this is what I did:
import tweepy
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
status = api.get_status(908827394856947712)
The original url of this tweet is 'https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/908827394856947712' and this tweet DOES contain an image. While studying status._json, I figured out that the links of media files are contained in either status._json['entities'] or status._json['extended_entities'] but I couldn't find ['extended_entities'] and ['entities'] doesn't contain image link.
What makes me annoying is that some tweets have this problem and most do not. So why does this happen and how can I solve this problem?

If you take a look through the response, you will see "truncated": true,
Twitter recently changed how tweets are presented - see their documentation https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/upcoming-changes-to-tweets
With your request, you need to set tweet_mode=extended
So: api.get_status('908827394856947712', tweet_mode='extended')

Using tweepy to follow people tweeting a specific hashtag

This is one of my first python projects and I'm using Tweepy to trying to search for a specific hashtag and follow those people tweeting that hashtag. I don't understand why this doesn't work and I've tried to append followers to list but nothing either. I've read the tweepy docs and this is what I've come up with:
import tweepy
import time
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
for follower in tweepy.Cursor(api.search, q="#kenbone").items():
api.create_friendship(screen_name = follower)
print(follower)

The screen_name is part of the author attribute, this works for me
api.create_friendship(screen_name = follower.author.screen_name)

Want you are getting in your loop, the variable follower, is a user object with a huge lot of information about the user, and not just a name as you seem to believe. To get the screen name of a user object, use follower.screen_name:
api.create_friendship(screen_name = follower.screen_name)

Exclude retweets using tweepy's API.search function

I am using the tweepy library in python to search for tweets that contain a certain word. Retrieving all tweets results in a long list, which also includes a lot of retweets. I want to exclude these retweets. The following code works, but now each tweet is processed (also the retweets), which is not ideal considering the rate limit:
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
query = 'test'
max_tweets = 100
for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.search, q=query).items(max_tweets):
jsontweet = json.dumps(tweet._json)
jsontweet = json.loads(jsontweet)
if not 'retweeted_status' in jsontweet:
print(tweet)
Is there a way in which I can specify within my search request to not include retweets? I found that I could include include_rts = False in my code in this post, but I do not know where, and whether it is also working for the API.search function. I was unable to find how to include this parameter in this function in the tweepy documentation.